Whether you’re really passionate about RPC, MQTT, Matrix or wayland, tell us more about the protocols or open standards you have strong opinions on!

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.world
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    1 年前

    TeX. I was able to use it during school for some beautiful type setting and formatting but nobody I work with wants to use anything other than plain text or unfortunately more commonly binary wysiwyg editor formats. It’s frustrating and ugly.

    • leopold@lemmy.kde.social
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      1 年前

      What WYSIWYG binary formats have you been using? OpenDocument is zipped XML. OOXML is also zipped XML. RTF is plain text. Everything else is dead. RTF is too, actually.

    • Railison@aussie.zone
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      1 年前

      One way I do TeX now is a few templates (letter, memo, etc) and circulate files in PDF.

      If you must use Word to circulate files, consider Pandoc as a way to get them out.

      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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        1 年前

        I somewhat disagree.

        WYSIWYG document editors are terrible at getting things exactly as you want.

        If you’re a perfectionist, especially in presentation, it’s probably easier to adopt TeX than it is to get (Open)Office to do exactly what you want into.

      • Norodix@lemmy.world
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        1 年前

        Binary wysiwyg is shit for versioning, I hate it. Plaintext is fine but limited. I like both markdown and tex.